Yes, rumor has it that ethernet is slightly faster than USB at the current time. I don't know which is more reliable. I've heard of people who got synch errors via ethernet as well as USB.

ACK, I got synch errors on ethernet as well as on USB.

Ethernet is nominally slightly faster than USB, although in practice I only get about 300Kbytes/sec over Ethernet this is slower than jwtadmin gets over USB but then I don't have such an "ass of iron" PC...

Hmm, USB should be harder for the CPU than TCP/IP, as far as I know, but that probably depends on quite some things, like controller used on the NIC, USB chipset, drivers etc.

Personally I think Ethernet's more reliable than USB, although that's probably because I'm a bit of a luddite at heart and don't trust this fancy new USB stuff . If TCP/IP were broken, people would have noticed by now...

Well, I got around 250kB/s over USB, and well over 500kB/s over Ethernet. And Ethernet really seems to be far more stable than USB, at least on both my laptop (PIII/650, 128MB RAM) and my desktop (K7/500, 256MB RAM). BTW: TCP/IP has quite a few quirks, but mainly security problems.

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